Suzaku (aka Astro-E2)

Astro-E2 was successfully launched on 12:30 pm JST
on July 10, 2005 from the Uchinoura Space Center (USC) in Japan. Soon
after launch, the mission was renamed Suzaku.
Suzaku is the re-build of Astro-E, which was unfortunately lost during launch
(10 February 2000).
Suzaku (as Astro-E) has been developed at the Japanese Institute of Space
and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in collaboration with the US.
This is Japan's fifth X-ray astronomy mission.
Suzaku is the first satellite that carries a new type of X-ray
spectrometer, the X-ray micro-calorimeter, which provides unprecedented
energy resolution compared to non-dispersive instruments.

Mission Characteristics

Five nested conical thin-foil grazing incidence telescopes (XRT),
with a angular resolution of ~2 ´ (HPD); all gold-coated.
Focal lenght : 4.75m (XRT-I, 4 units); 4.5m (XRT-S, 1 unit)
At the focus of each telescope there is one of the following detectors :